Seat-frame.



No. 825,751. PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

A. F. OLD & E. G. BUDD.

SEAT FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED 0012a. 1905.

WITNESSES: L INVENTORS ATTORNEY r T D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUSBORN F. OLD, OF MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, AND EDWARD Gr. BUDD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO HALE-KILBURN METAL COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORA- TION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I ratented. July 10, 1906.

Application filed October 28, 1906- Serial No. 284,913-

, To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, AUSBORN F.,OLD, residing at Montclairfin the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and EDWARD G.

' BUDD, residing at'Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, citizens of the United States, have invented a certain new, and useful Improvement in Seat-Frames, of which the following is a IO specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide aseat-frame of the character used, for instance, in seating for railway-cars which shall possess maximum strength and rigidity and which may be readily combined or assembled with a seat mechanism or a part thereof by means of which such mechanism may be guided or supported.

In carryingoutthe invention we employ the usual seat end or pan, in which may be formed the guide-groove or other device for supporting or guiding the seat-back in its movement from one facing direction to another.' Such seat end-or pan may also be provided with connections With the sills or rails, which commonly extend from one side of a car-seat to the other. and upon which may be supported the cushion, either stationary or interdependently movable with 0 the seat-back. The seat-frame, towhich the present invention is directed, is designed to extend around, cover, and protect this seat end or pan and to project upwardly therefrom in order to receive and support a suitable arm-rest, which may be of wood or metal, as preferred. 'Said frame is preferably formed from a single integral sheet of" steel, which may be readily pressed into the desired configuration, enabling it not only to 40 perform its mechanical function, as herein stated, but also adapting it to receive such ornamentation as may be desired to give a finished and tasteful appearance to the structure as a whole.

4 5 The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a seat-frame employing our invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the other side of said frame, and Fig.

3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3, Fi ."2.

Referring to the drawings, in whic similar letters of reference denote corresponding the center of the seat.

parts, A designates the seat end or pan. This is here shown as provided with inwardlyturned upper and lower flanges a a and cor- 5 5 responding inwardly-turned end flanges a a Said seat end is also shown as provided with an inwardly-projecting guide-rib B, which may be formed integral with the seat end orsecured thereto by any suitable 6o meanssuch, for instance, as the rivets b. Said seat end is provided with bearing-pieces 0, having lips c, ada tedto receive the upwardly-projecting We s c of the connectingrails 0 extending from one seatend to another or from one seat end to a suitable support carried by a car-wall. D designates the seat-frame, formed, a above indicated, of a single integral sheet of steel and here shown as provided with a cen 7o tral panel D and horizontal ribs D serving both for ornamentation and for strengthening. Said frame is further shown as rovided with beaded vertical side edges d, and a similarly-beaded lower edge (Z the extreme edges being inwardly flanged toward Thus the lower edge flange of the frame is illustrated at (1 the depth of this flange being calculated with re spect to the de th of the end late or pan A, which fits snug y therein, as shown in Fig. 3, although said flange d may, if desired, be of greater depth and be turned over the edge of the flange a/ to firmly hold the same in position. The inward flanging of said frame'at all of its edges gives said frame a finished and massive'appearance, and this is accomplished by the simple method of stampin or pressing an integral sheet, as above exp ained.

I The seat end or pan A may besecured to .the frame in any suitable manneras, for instance, by rivets-although if it be desired not to mar the outer surface of said frame adjacent to the seat end the securing means need not necessarily extend entirely through 5 such frame. Above the seat end the frame is preferably curved outwardly, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the upper edge being flanged inward at (1*, this flange corresponding with theflange d Such upper edge is here shown as provided with the arm-rest 11 Which may be of wood or other material and which is proe vided with a longitudinal slot or rabbet, into which the upper edge of said seat-frame extends. If the arm-rest be of wood, the same integral sheet, both side edges and both upper may be secured in position by means of woodscrews passing through the inwardly-turned flange d and extending into said arm-rest,

It is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise design of the seat- :frame herein shown and described, as the same may be departed from within wide limits without sacrificing the advantages of the invention. It is to be remarked, however, that a design is to be preferred which, while lending itself to the ornamentation of the seat-frame, will have the effect of strengthening the same both longitudinally and laterally, contributing in that respect with the inturned edge flanges above described to the rigidity of the frame as a whole.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The combination with a seat end having a flange at its lower edge, of a frame formed in a single integral sheet extending over said seat end and projecting upwardly above the same, said frame having a flange coactin with said flange on the seat end, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a seat end having inturned flanges, of a frame formed in a single integral sheet and provided with a flange adjacent to its lower edge coacting with the corresponding flange of said seat end, said sheet projecting upwardly beyond said seat end, its upper edge being flanged inwardly in correspondence with the lower edge thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a seat end having inturned flanges, of a frame formed in a single and lower edges being flanged inwardly, the lower edge flange coacting with the corresponding flange of said seat end and theupper edge flange coacting with an arm-rest,

' substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with a seat end havinginturned edge flanges, and means for supporting and guiding a seat-back and seatcushion, of a frame formed in a single integral sheet of pressed steel flanged inwardly at its side ed es and at its upper and lower edges, the b0 y of said sheet intermediate of said edges being paneled, means for securing said seat end to said frame, and an arm-rest-carried by the upper flanged edge of saidframe, substantially as set forth.

' 5. The combination with a se at end having inturned flanges, of a frame formed in a single integral sheet extending over and protecting said seat end and projecting-upwardly above the same, said frame having corresponding flanges, the lower edge flange of said frame coactin with the lower edge flange of said seat en means 'for securing said seat end and frame together, and panel-ribs formed on said frame and extending both laterally and longitudinally thereof, substantially as set forth. This specification signedand witnessed this 29th day of August, 1905.

AUSBORN F. OLD.

EDWARD G. BUDD.

Witnesses to signature of Ausborn F. Old:

' E. CAMILLE KLONOWER,

P. J. BUOKER.

Witnesses to signature of Edward G. Budd:

E. OAMILLE KLoNowER, R. M. FRIES. 

